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Deuteronomy 2:9 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 2 · verse 9
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.Deuteronomy 2:9 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:9 in context
7For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
10The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- possessionyᵉrushshâhsomething occupiedH3425 →
- Distresstsûwrto crampH6696 →
- MoabitesMôwʼâbMoab, an incestuous son of LotH4124 →
- contendgârâhproperly, to grateH1624 →
- battlemilchâmâha battleH4421 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deu 2:8), calls them, "our brethren, the children of Esau." Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-23